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Jamaica Anansi stories

Note 13 — RIDDLES.

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Cf. Suaheli (Velten):

41. All my children have on turbans.

—Mushrooms.

46. My children all wear clothes and a cap on the side of the head; who has no garment and no cap, he is not my child.

—Fingers. (?)

54. I have seen twenty children in a row with bright frocks on.

—Crows.

Suahili (Steere):

6. My children have turbans; he who has no turban is no child of mine.

—A kind of fruit. ↑

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